Flashing it back to r33675M does not bring 2.4GHz back. But after updating to KONG's dd-wrt r34320M, 2.4 GHz also disappears. However, only 2.4GHZ and one 5GHz channels are available. Marie Curie discovering Uranium! It's all relative, I am told. Don't laugh on my quick feeling of a bit like. And suddenly my radio was miraculously turned on. I came across the thread of 'Bricked R8500?' in which KONG suggestion of inserting a Power Off and Power On in between commands of 'nvram erase' and 'TFTPD'. A day and half later with some enforced breaks to regain my insanity. So nothing to loose at this stage, I tried stock FW for R8300. Flashing Netgear stock FW for R8500 did not bring R8500 back to life. But whatever KONG's version I tried, the radio remained OFF, i.e. My initial flashing of R8500 with KONG's dd-wrt for brought R8500 back to life from a solid amber power light indicator. With that out of the way, here are what I did: The R8500 issues are perhaps indicative of my observations here. I told them that although in a gentle way so as not to upset anybody, if you know what I mean. But its software department is well below par. I can honestly say Netgear hardware specs are reasonably good on those that I tested including R7000 and Orbi. I have done nearly 20 flashings at this point! I am also a Beta tester for several of Netgear products. I acquired a non-working and cheap Netgear R8500-NAS (made in Vietnam, 272-12473-02). I do hope we gain a better collective understanding of R8500 in the end. I'd like to share my experience in attempting to debrick Netgear R8500 in this thread. In particular, KONG for his works on this router and on others such as R7000. Posted: Mon 3:59 Post subject: The DEBRICKING of Netgear R8500įirstly, I thank you many for your contributions.

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